Dubya Tse-Wha
The brilliant and incisive Molly Ivins really stuck a nerve with Crusader Mike as I read her column on Creators. I owe a lot to Molly -- in addition to stealing her line about one Texas politician (If he was any dumber, we'd have to mow him!), it was by tracking her to Creators that I discovered Crispin's column. So, when she speaks I listen.
On Friday, she took on the Democrats. I didn't agree with Crispin et al about John Kerry and I do think we'd be infinitely better off with him in office that Dubya Tse-Wha and the Gang of Four -- Big Don, Condi R, Karlly Karl, Hankie G -- and the rest of that miserable, incompetent and evil crew. Still, I agree. Beginning by disowning Hillary Clinton as a potential candidate, she slams the Democrats for sheer lack of what we used to call testicular fortitude. The majority of the people in the United States want things like single-payer, universal healthcare (86%) so why the hell are they tiptoeing around on that issue -- which was a Hillary cause celibre?
She really hits her stride when she goes after those who are afraid to speak against this insane and crazy war. (If staying the course and getting more soldier, sailors, airmen and marines killed is necessary so that the those already fallen did not die in vain -- a really spurious and evil piece of logic-- Dulce et decorum est, motherfuckers! -- why not just kill them while they're in basic training and then save on the expense of shipping them to Iraq? Someone call big Don -- there's a transformation for you!) She is much more emotional and yet rational on this than I...
"In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were "German dogs." They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds. The MINUTE someone impugns your patriotism for opposing this war, turn on them like a snarling dog and explain what loving your country really means. That, or you could just piss on them elegantly, as Rep. John Murtha did. Or eviscerate them with wit (look up Mark Twain on the war in the Philippines). Or point out the latest in the endless "string of bad news." Do not sit there cowering and pretending the only way to win is as Republican-lite. If the Washington-based party can't get up and fight, we'll find someone who can."